Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
ABC's
and 123's-this site has activities for letter recognition.
A.B.Cow
-
students enter the missing letter from the alphabet.
ABC
Mommy and Me - an alphabet recognition program that displays the letter
in uppercase and lowercase and if the student clicks on the letter it will
say the letter.
Alfy's
Thematic Units-a variety of activities to help with phonics and reading.
Alphabet
Action - displays the letters of the alphabet and students can click
on a letter and see it, hear it, and see a word that begins with the selected
letter.
Alphabits
for Kids- provides 6 alphabet activities for students including matching
letter, letter comes before, letter comes after, matching upper and lower
case letters and more.
Building
Language for Literacy-student find matching letters and rhyming word
at this site.
Chicken
Stacker- students must select the word with the correct vowel sound.
Dolch
Word Lists - provides 11 lists with the words and activities to have
students participate in.
Early
Childhood Learning Education Network - provides activities for primary
students about colors, numbers, letters, shapes, words, and more. The activities
are outstanding and do not require the students to read information.
The
Hungry Thing - a phonetic awareness activity that asks students to
match pictures that rhyme.
Language
Arts Activities - provides interactive activities for colors, numbers
alphabet, spelling and more.
Learning
Planet - provides interactive numbers, counting, and the alphabet.
Learning
to Read - a variety of games, movies, books to help children learn
to read.
Literacy
Center-This site has lots of beginning literacy activities.
Little
Explorer's Picture Dictionary - a dictionary for younger students.
Name
Talk: Exploring Letter-sound Knowledge in a Primary Classroom (K-2)-students
explore their knowledge of letter sounds then use a stapleless book tool
on the Internet.
PBS
Between the Lions- provides songs, stories, and activities. Click
on Games to see numerous engaging activities for practicing reading literacy
skills.
Sadlier
Oxford Phonics Activities - a great wealth of phonics activities for
grades K-6.
Scholastics
Phonics and Decoding Resources-a list of resources provided by Scholastic.
Seuss
University - provides reading activities for online and to print out
and play.
Sight
Words - provides cards that can be printed and activities for grades
1-4.
Vowel
Take Home Cards - provides cards of various vowel sounds to help students
practice their vowel patterns to print out, use at school or take home
to practice.
Words
and Pictures-A site with different activities to help with developing
readers.
Vocabulary
A.Word.A.Day-provides
a new word a day appropriate for students 11-17.
Education
4 Kids Vocabulary Drills-vocabulary drills.
E.L.
Easton Vocabulary-a variety of dictionaries and quizzes.
FakeOut-vocabulary
drill where you guess the meaning or create your own FakeOut.
Sentence
Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences (K-2)-a
lesson to help students in sentence creation.
SuperKids
Vocabulary Builders-vocabulary resources.
Vocabulary
University-vocabulary exercises for students 8-18 to build their vocabulary.
WordCentral.com-a
dictionary, daily buzz word, and more.
Words@Random-provides
new words, answers to questions and word games.
Word
Game of the Day-provides a variety of word games for students 8-18.
Comprehension and Fluency
CNN
Interactive Reading Source- provides current and archived articles
for students to read and then answer comprehension, vocabulary and sequence
questions.
Critical
Literacy: Point of View (6-8)-students examine Internet sites to determine
an Author's purpose and point of view.
Developing
a Definition of Reading through Analysis in the Middle School (6-8)-students
examine Internet sites to develop an understanding of what it takes to
become a reader.
Fluency
Through Fables-this site has several fables to help students improve
comprehension. There are also online quizzes for the students.
New
York Times Learning Network - provides students in grades 3-12 with
news summaries, daily news quiz, word of the day, test prep question of
the day, daily lesson plans, news snapshot, and more.
Online
Reading Skills - provides mini-stories with cloze exercises, speed
reading exercises, and other reading passages with activities.
Poetry:
A Feast to Form Fluent Readers (3-5)-this site uses Internet sites
of poetry to help with their fluency.
Power
Proofreading - students select their grade level and must proofread
selections of text and correct the errors.
Reading
Comprehension Strategies Toolbox-provides reading samples and comprehension
quesitons.
Reading
Exercises - provides reading passages and the students must answer
inference, main idea, vocabulary, and detail questions.
Scholastic
Explorers - students read and interact with information about explorers
such as Native American cultures, ocean life, endangered environments,
and more.
Scholastic
Reading and Language Arts Content Index - provides a variety of lesson
plans, reproducibles, and activities in reading and language arts.
Shaquille
O'neil: Using a Basketball Star to Motivate Readers - provides a read
a-loud of Shaq and the BeanStalk and interactive activities for students
to participate in.
Grammar
and Spelling
Grammar
Blaster-Grammar practice for grades 2-5.
Grammar
Gorillas - an activity to select the correct part of speech.
Interactive
Spelling: Adding "ed" - a tutorial on when to add "ed" to words.
Interesting
Things for ESL Students - provides word games, puzzles, quizzes,
slang, proverbs and much more.
Language
Arts Activities - a variety of spelling, reading and grammar activities.
Lessons
tied to MUSD Writing Standards for 5th Grade - provides a variety of
writing lessons and activities tied to the standards.
Measuring
Time - a cloze activity for children.
Paint
by Idioms - students practice selecting the correct idiom.
Prefix
Skills - provides matching, concentration, word search and flash cards
on prefixes.
Rooting
Out Words -students must select the appropriate root of the words.
Wild
World of Words - provides activities on spelling, decoding, word building
and word meanings.
Wonder
Spell - the program presents a picture and students click on
the letters of the alphabet to spell the simple words.
General
Activities
Dositey.com-Language
Arts activities for all grades.
Houghton
Mifflin Education Place
Language
Arts Activities
Effective
Use of Internet Technology
Wild
World of Words Challenges
Mrs.
ABC
Sentence
Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences (K-2)-a
lesson to help students in sentence creation.